These Floral Yoda Mickey Ears Are Out of This Galaxy

Instructions

1. Lay headband over cardboard circles and sketch where you want the ears to sit on the headband. Cut off the area of ears that is unnecessary.
2. Trace the new shape of the ear onto the green felt. Trace the new shape of the ear onto the green felt again, this time adding about ¼ to ½-inch additional felt around the edge. You should have 4 pieces of green felt to work with.
3. Hot glue ear shapes of larger green felt to the back of the cardboard cut-outs, wrapping the extra around to the front and glueing the edge down. Hot glue ear shapes of the smaller green felt to the front of the cardboard cut-outs, taking care to glue the edges down. Trim green felt to be perfect. Clean edges, Yoda would want. Set the two Mickey ears aside.
4. To make the Yoda ears, cut out the ear shapes from the printable template. Using a pencil, trace four ear shapes onto the green felt. Cut out all 4 green felt ear shapes.
5. Lay the floral wire across the bottom of an ear cut out, about ⅛-inch from the edge of the fabric, bending the wire to match the curvature of the ear. Trim the wire to exactly the length of the ear or a tiny bit longer.
6. Lay the remaining portion of the same floral wire along the top of the same ear cut out, about ⅛-inch from the edge of the fabric, bending the wire to match the curvature of the ear and meeting up with the bottom edge wire. Trim the wire to exactly the length of the ear or a tiny bit longer.
7. Tack the two wires in place with hot glue and allow it to cool completely before moving on, so that the wire doesn’t move around inside the ears. Place a bead of hot glue over the wires and onto the ear under them all the way around the edge of the Yoda ear cut out.
8. Place a second Yoda ear cut out on top of the one with the wires and allow it to cool completely before moving on, so that the wires will stay in place within the Yoda ears.
9. Using the pencil eraser, rub it along the inside of the Yoda ears, making it fuzzy. You can even add a little shade in there by coloring it lightly with the pencil. I did.
10. Hot glue the two Mickey ears in place on the headband, taking care to hold them firmly until the hot glue is completely cooled.
11. Hot glue the two Yoda ears to the Mickey ears, but only on the ends where the ears attach to Yoda’s head. Leave the remaining portion of the Yoda ears free, so that you can wrinkle them, curve them, or fold them - this allows them to be adjustable.
12. Pick your favorite “big flower” from your set of various Dagobah-swamp flowers. Cut it from the stem about 2-inches. Hot glue this in place, standing vertically, equidistant between the two Mickey ears. This is not going to be super steady, so be aware that you will need to hold it until you can get the other flowers in place to support it.
13. Fill-in the area between the bottom of this vertical flower and the headband with additional flowers and leaves. Be sure to add more along the bottom of the headband between the Yoda ears and the headband.
14. Cut out a thin, 1/2-inch wide strip of green tulle, long enough to wrap from one end of the headband to the other. Hot glue this in place, wrapping where possible and definitely in front of the place where the ears and headband meet, to hide the hot glue.